Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern FlorenceAristocratic women exerted unprecedented political and social influence in Florence throughout the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. During this period, female members of the powerful Medici family governed the city for the first and only time in its history. These women also helped shape the city's artistic life, commissioning works of music, art, and theater that were inscribed with their own concerns and aspirations. Echoes of Women's Voices examines the patronage of individuals and institutions, particularly convents, which have remained, until now, largely neglected by scholars. Through commissions, patrons sought to promote a vision of the world and their place in it. The unique social norms, laws, educational backgrounds, and life experiences of female patrons meant the expression of a worldview that differed significantly from that of their male counterparts. Joining exceptional archival research with telling analysis of significant examples of music, art, and drama, Kelley Harness challenges the prevailing view that Florence saw a political and artistic decline during this period. She argues convincingly that the female domination of these years brought forth artistic patronage that was both continuous and well-conceived. |
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Contents
Modes of Artistic Communication and Perception in Early Modern Florence | 13 |
A more than virile prudence Archduchess Maria Magdalena | 40 |
Amazons of God Virgin Martyr Spectacles 162123 | 62 |
Una forte magnanima e generosa vedova Judith | 111 |
She hoped to see in the triumphs of religion the triumphs of her house EpicChivalric Poems and the Equestrian Ballets | 142 |
Now it suits me to beseech End of the Regency End of a Decade 162830 | 174 |
One of the most perfect unions of the spiritual and the temporal imaginable The Monastero di Santa Croce | 210 |
Queens of the Arno Medici Princesses and the Crocetta | 282 |
Female Worthies Depicted in Lunette Frescoes in the Audience Room Villa Poggio Imperiale | 345 |
Summary of Book 3 of the Acts of Paul | 347 |
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Agatha Alcina Andrea Salvadori appears Archduchess Maria Magdalena Artemisia Artemisia Gentileschi Battista da Gagliano book of Judith Bronzini cadence canto fermo castrato Catherine Cecchina century cherici in coro chitarrone Chloris Chri Christian Christine of Lorraine Cicognini convent Cosimo Croc Croce Crocetta dati dell'organo depicted documents Domenica female Ferdinando Ferdinando Saracinelli fermo festa Firenze Flora Florence Florentine Francesca Caccini Francesco Francesco Morandini frescoes Giovanni Battista Giuditta Grand Duke Guardaroba Holofernes Holy I-Fas I-Fn Jacopo Peri Judith liberazione libretto Maestro di Cappella male Marco da Gagliano marriage Medici Messa motet nuns Odoardo opera pagati painting patron patronage performed play Poggio Imperiale political praise preti Prince Princess Maria Maddalena rappresentazione regents Renaissance Rinuccini Rome Ruggiero sacra rappresentazione Saint Ursula Salvadori Sant'Agata Sant'Orsola Saracinelli scene September seventeenth-century sing singers Solerti sonatori sopranos spectacles Spon stanzas strumenti Thecla tion Venus Villa vols women Zephyr
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Page 11 - Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence |
| Author | Kelley Harness |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0226316599, 9780226316598 |
| Length | 378 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / European History / Europe / General History / Europe / Italy Music / General Music / History & Criticism Social Science / Women's Studies |
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